Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To the stars through difficulties.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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